September 2, 2020 05:09 pm
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Twitter hack conspirators may include a 16-year-old from Massachusetts
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The investigation of the unprecedented Twitter hack earlier this summer has produced a new suspect: a 16-year-old from Massachusetts, according to a new report from The New York Times. This new suspect would be the youngest of the group of conspirators spanning the US and the UK, a group now totaling four individuals who together planned and then pulled off account takeovers of dozens of high-profile Twitter users to promote a bitcoin scam.
It’s still unclear which members had direct control of internal Twitter systems and how exactly they gained access beyond somehow tricking company employees, but the supposed mastermind of the hack is believed to be 17-year-old Floridian Graham Ivan Clark, who has been charged as an adult with 30...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/2/21418437/twitter-hack-16-year-old-massachusetts-investigation-findings
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